If waiting until 9 for the Drive-In movie, Garden State, at Rockefeller Center, to begin isn't your bag, Gothamist suggests you check out Museum Mile Festival on Fifth Avenue. Between 82nd and 105th Streets, Fifth Avenue is closed for people to visit any of the nine museums along that strip, as well as partake in learning how to make art ("learn how to figure paint with a live model at the National Academy of Design, paint chalk murals with East Harlem native street artist and muralist, James De La Vega or learn German in 10 minutes at the Goethe-Institut") and enjoy the music and street performers (there's face painting!). The Museum Mile-ing goes on from 6 till 9 tonight. But drink your water wherever you may be - it's hot! [Via reader Dave - thanks!]
Museums on Museum Mile are: El Museo del Barrio, Museum of the City of New York, the Jewish Museum, the Cooper-Hewitt, the Guggenheim, the National Academy, Neue Galerie, Goethe-Institut, and the Met.

And on an interesting note, 90th Street has Silly Billy the Very Funny Clown, one of the city's most sought-after clowns. He's also known as David Friedman, the brother whose videotapes of his family during the 80s make up a much of Capturing the Friedmans.